Killer locked up until 2025 under new law

Rochestown murderer Peter Whelan will be locked up until at least 2025 under the new Parole Act, the Government has confirmed.

“The act would apply to the case in question,” said a spokesperson for Justice Minister Charles Flanagan. “Under the 2019 act, life-sentence prisoners will become eligible to apply for parole after having served 12 years of their life sentence. This does not mean, of course, that they would be granted parole at that time.”